Introduction : progressivism's enduring relevance
Part I: Progressive first principles. A primer on progressivism and the progressive era ; Original liberalism vs. progressive liberalism ; Roosevelt, Wilson, and the democratic theory of national progressivism
Part II: Progressivism in American political development. American progressivism and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln ; Making the state into a God: American progressivism and the social gospel ; Realism and idealism in progressive foreign policy: the case of Woodrow Wilson
Part III: American progressivism and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The progressive origins of the administrative state ; Progressivism and the law in today's adminsitrative state ; Progressivism in state and local government.